Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"
1984@lemmy.today 23 hours agoPeople pay for features they want. YouTube did a bait and switch and launched their service with all the features that were expected, such as running in the background, no ads, fast forwarding and everything else.
Now when the service is a monopoly, they are removing features instead of adding things that are worth extra money.
Its a bait and switch.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 hours ago
The cost of running YouTube is constantly growing. New features cost extra to develop and maintain. Monetizing existing features lessens the burden and allows the platform to keep providing their core service for free.
1984@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
Youtube is owned by Google, market cap of 3.7 trilion dollars, third richest company in the America.
Lets pray together they are able to pay their bills for YouTube.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 hours ago
Why are you comparing the market cap of a company that runs multiple services for billions of users to the average American salary. That really shows where your brain is at and why you keep landing on the conclusion that this is unfair.
1984@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
Maybe the example was a poor one, but the idea was to show that these companies have so much money, that im not going to feel sympathy for them needing even more.